While my interest in art goes back many years (traceable at least to when i was a graduate student and had to learn to make my own figures for scientific publications), my professional life was devoted to academia. Retirement gave me an opportunity to pursue art full-time. As a psychologist, my research interests were in human visual perception, and a significant part of that interest was devoted to questions that straddled the nebulous border between psychology and art (including investigations of depth and distance perception, color perception, the perception and representation of space, etc.). 1 have over 50 publications in professional journals treating such topics. Furthermore, as a psychologist I had a natural interest in personality, motivation, and emotion and how these influenced (and were influenced by) human perception. Invariably, all these are reflected in my art (although I do not claim always to understand precisely in what manner this happens).
Most of my work is in acrylic paint and/or mixed media on canvas, paper, or Masonite. I do some sculpture as well. My art frequently is quasi-representational, often with human figures that are somewhat cartoon-like, somewhat surreal, and often with a touch of whimsy (although they frequently function at other levels as well). More recently, I also have been creating representations that are more abstract. I like a lot of color. Sometimes 1 begin with a simple line or curve and let it grow into whatever it wants to be–an art piece often develops a mind of its own.
